Organic Conference

Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen, 1940

The design of the Organic Chair was created by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1940 as part of their entry for a competition entitled 'Organic Design in Home Furnishings', which was organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. While all of the models in this group are extremely comfortable, Organic Conference is suited for table seating, unlike the versions Organic Chair and Organic Highback.

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When a chair goes into production 64 years after it was first designed

The Organic Chair – a small and comfortable reading chair – was developed in several versions for the 1940 ‘Organic Design in Home Furnishings’ competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With its sculptural shapes, the design was ahead of the times. But due to the absence of suitable manufacturing techniques, the armchair never went into production. Not until 1950 did it become possible to manufacture and market organically shaped seat shells in large quantities, as…

Eero Saarinen together with Charles Eames developed the first designs for furniture made from moulded plywood. In 1940, they submitted the Organic Chair as a joint entry to the “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.